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Growing evidence suggests lifelong learning can help combat cognitive decline, but many older adults with dementia avoid ...

Many of the world's leading causes of irreversible blindness, including glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration, share ...

For decades, medicine has chased a simple but elusive goal of delivering the right drug to the right place at the right time.

Social connections are known to contribute greatly to people's psychological and emotional well-being. In fact, difficulties ...

A study of more than 1 million women has found that excessive weight gain during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of ...

"Turn off that TV, it'll rot your brain!" has been a household refrain for decades. While "rot" might be too strong a term, researchers are finding that the overall sentiment could have some merit.

Researchers have found that, with new treatments for multiple myeloma, a serious type of blood cancer, clinicians should use ...

Wistar scientists have developed a new type of bispecific T cell engager, or BTE, that is effective against ovarian cancer in preclinical studies. It's a major development for this type of ...

People with Lynch syndrome, the most common hereditary predisposition to colorectal cancer, face a markedly increased cancer risk and therefore undergo regular colonoscopies. Researchers from the ...

Two nationally recognized scientists with decades of experience advising U.S. vaccine policy argue that it is a mistake to ...

For many cancer survivors, cannabis has become part of how they manage symptoms such as pain, nausea and anxiety. Medical ...